I have seen the ad you are talking about. That alone makes me want to get a dish, since I don't want to be associated with people like that simply because I happen to use cable.
One thing I should add is when Megapath told me 6 months I don't know if that meant my area or all of Verizon. Your milage may vary, but it is clear that Megapath wants to be more available which is a lot more than other ISPs and CLECs like Covad are doing.
Within the next 6 months Megapath is supposed to become a Verizon reseller. This is what they told me when I called them a couple of weeks ago, to try to get DSL from them.
I had ATT@Home last year. When I started with it it was very fast. Over the next several months the speed dropped, not to below dialup or anything like that, but it was obvious that the speed would do nothing but drop. That and the constant disruptions in service led me to get DSL. Technically, I get less bandwith than I did with cable, but the connection is rock solid, and I can run servers on it.
No, but they are responsible for enforcing school reguations which include protecting people like the shooters from being assaulted, slandered, etc. by the jocks.
If you look at the budget of most state governments in the US, education is their largest expenditure. It is so large that EVERYTHING ELSE COMBINED is less than their education expenditure. This is similar to how much money is paid at the local level of government. Schools have more than enough money. They need less money not more.
I am amazed at how low a priority education is in the Federal Governments plans.
It isn't a low priority to them. There are very few politicians that don't make education their "top priority". If it wasn't for social security, medicare, and the military, then education would probably be the largest portion of the federal budget. If you look at state budgets it is rear to find a state where education isn't the largest state expenditure. It is so large that the rest of the state budget is smaller. Government not making education a priority is not the problem here.
I've been to engineering meetings in the USA where problems encountered in designs were met with a "prayer" session. Sheesh - why don't we just sacrifice a goat or virgin or two to Baal to help our sales team.
It's incredibly obvious that you have never been to the US. Someone else already pointed out how any company in the US would be sued so fast if this even happened. Since there isn't as many lawyers in Europe than the US, this is more likely to happen in Europe...
What a lot of people are saying here is that the plow vs. hoe arguement is meaningless unless there are books to teach how to use plows, adequate health care, etc. Giving someone a plow who doesn't know how to use it won't help them.
This saying brings shame upon those who utter it. While teaching does have just as many incompetent members as every other job classification, it has far, far more people who truly care about their job and not about their paycheck.
Are you kidding us?
I think everyone, no matter how awful your school was/is, can think of at least one outstanding teacher who changed your life- who challenged you to do something you otherwise would not have done, who helped you to pursue an interest that would otherwise have been out of reach, or who showed you a broader viewpoint on the world.
Nope, not one.
Most teachers *could* do plenty of other jobs if they wanted to.
As someone else pointed out they can work at McDonalds.
We should thank them for choosing to teach in places where they are sorely needed rather than pursue a selfish self-interest.
They are pursing their own self-interest, their self gratification by thinking they help kids when they really don't.
Think of all the sacrifices many teachers make for their jobs (money, community support, time, in some places personal safety) and ask yourself if you could do the same.
Sara Lee is in the business of making sure their cheese cakes do not have E.coli in them. They know how to handle that sort of thing. Sara Lee is not in the day care business. Since Sara Lee has no expierence in running day care, it should be outsourced at some level. The problem is if anything goes wrong will is still be the "Sara Lee" day care? Even if it isn't referred to as the "Sara Lee" day care, there could still be problems for Sara Lee if something goes wrong. After all, Sara Lee shouldn't have outsourced day care to a place where something goes wrong.
The answer of course is to use pre-tax credits for day care. That way the legal issues are moot, and the single workers can select other credits for their lifestyle.
I have been using SFNB since the begining of this year. I have never had a problem with them, unlike most of my family and friends who bank at a "real world" bank. The one time I needed to call SFNB they were nothing but helpful.
Since you are considering a protest vote, but want nothing to do with Nader, Harry Browne the Libertarian candidate for President is probably right for you.
You forgot the effective alliance that the smug teachers had with the jocks and their cheerleader bimbo girlfriends. Public schools cause violence, not Quake, not guns.
Look at the history of public schooling. In Massachusetts 120 to 150 years ago, nearly all parents opposed public education. Many were willing to use guns to support this opposition. They knew what would happen. Unfortunately, these heroes were unsucessful, and we now have the mess we currently have.
Public education causes people to become angry. This is a legitimate anger whether it was parents over 100 years ago, or students now. People get angry when their rights are violated.
If public education was ended tommorow there would be a sizable reduction in violence. The problem is fighting a battle against people who will slander you by saying that you hate children, and that you are the problem because we all need to solve this together, or some other BS.
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I have seen the ad you are talking about. That alone makes me want to get a dish, since I don't want to be associated with people like that simply because I happen to use cable.
One thing I should add is when Megapath told me 6 months I don't know if that meant my area or all of Verizon. Your milage may vary, but it is clear that Megapath wants to be more available which is a lot more than other ISPs and CLECs like Covad are doing.
Within the next 6 months Megapath is supposed to become a Verizon reseller. This is what they told me when I called them a couple of weeks ago, to try to get DSL from them.
They have even gone as far as to list Verizon as a CLEC they sell on dslreports.com: http://www.dslreports.com/reviews/495
Megapath would probably be a little more expensive AceDSL, but you wouldn't have a problem doing what you wanted to do, and they are very good.
D3D is better at what it does, namely giving developers headaches, making programs require more lines of code, enriching the Microsoft empire, etc.
>>>You sound like one of these idiotic Intel employees I have to work with every day.
If Intel employees are your coworkers (or cow-orkers) aren't you saying you work for Intel?
I had ATT@Home last year. When I started with it it was very fast. Over the next several months the speed dropped, not to below dialup or anything like that, but it was obvious that the speed would do nothing but drop. That and the constant disruptions in service led me to get DSL. Technically, I get less bandwith than I did with cable, but the connection is rock solid, and I can run servers on it.
No, but they are responsible for enforcing school reguations which include protecting people like the shooters from being assaulted, slandered, etc. by the jocks.
If you look at the budget of most state governments in the US, education is their largest expenditure. It is so large that EVERYTHING ELSE COMBINED is less than their education expenditure. This is similar to how much money is paid at the local level of government. Schools have more than enough money. They need less money not more.
A first post actually on topic, but just like a first post. Amazing!
The only other major cable provider is Time-Warner.
Next we will see AT&TAOLTime-Warner.
Translation: You have no right to complain how all of your rights were taken away since your rights were taken away democratically.
I am amazed at how low a priority education is in the Federal Governments plans.
It isn't a low priority to them. There are very few politicians that don't make education their "top priority". If it wasn't for social security, medicare, and the military, then education would probably be the largest portion of the federal budget. If you look at state budgets it is rear to find a state where education isn't the largest state expenditure. It is so large that the rest of the state budget is smaller. Government not making education a priority is not the problem here.
Were you able to get a static IP and run servers from the 7.1 Mbit down/680Kbit up DSL line?
I've been to engineering meetings in the USA where problems encountered in designs were met with a "prayer" session. Sheesh - why don't we just sacrifice a goat or virgin or two to Baal to help our sales team.
It's incredibly obvious that you have never been to the US. Someone else already pointed out how any company in the US would be sued so fast if this even happened. Since there isn't as many lawyers in Europe than the US, this is more likely to happen in Europe...
This is true.
>rational educator
There's no such thing.
have the Food Network?
What a lot of people are saying here is that the plow vs. hoe arguement is meaningless unless there are books to teach how to use plows, adequate health care, etc. Giving someone a plow who doesn't know how to use it won't help them.
This saying brings shame upon those who utter it. While teaching does have just as many incompetent members as every other job classification, it has far, far more people who truly care about their job and not about their paycheck.
Are you kidding us?
I think everyone, no matter how awful your school was/is, can think of at least one outstanding teacher who changed your life- who challenged you to do something you otherwise would not have done, who helped you to pursue an interest that would otherwise have been out of reach, or who showed you a broader viewpoint on the world.
Nope, not one.
Most teachers *could* do plenty of other jobs if they wanted to.
As someone else pointed out they can work at McDonalds.
We should thank them for choosing to teach in places where they are sorely needed rather than pursue a selfish self-interest.
They are pursing their own self-interest, their self gratification by thinking they help kids when they really don't.
Think of all the sacrifices many teachers make for their jobs (money, community support, time, in some places personal safety) and ask yourself if you could do the same.
No, but I am not an idiot.
Sara Lee is in the business of making sure their cheese cakes do not have E.coli in them. They know how to handle that sort of thing. Sara Lee is not in the day care business. Since Sara Lee has no expierence in running day care, it should be outsourced at some level. The problem is if anything goes wrong will is still be the "Sara Lee" day care? Even if it isn't referred to as the "Sara Lee" day care, there could still be problems for Sara Lee if something goes wrong. After all, Sara Lee shouldn't have outsourced day care to a place where something goes wrong.
The answer of course is to use pre-tax credits for day care. That way the legal issues are moot, and the single workers can select other credits for their lifestyle.
I have been using SFNB since the begining of this year. I have never had a problem with them, unlike most of my family and friends who bank at a "real world" bank. The one time I needed to call SFNB they were nothing but helpful.
Since you are considering a protest vote, but want nothing to do with Nader, Harry Browne the Libertarian candidate for President is probably right for you.
Harry Browne for President
You forgot the effective alliance that the smug teachers had with the jocks and their cheerleader bimbo girlfriends. Public schools cause violence, not Quake, not guns.
Look at the history of public schooling. In Massachusetts 120 to 150 years ago, nearly all parents opposed public education. Many were willing to use guns to support this opposition. They knew what would happen. Unfortunately, these heroes were unsucessful, and we now have the mess we currently have.
Public education causes people to become angry. This is a legitimate anger whether it was parents over 100 years ago, or students now. People get angry when their rights are violated.
If public education was ended tommorow there would be a sizable reduction in violence. The problem is fighting a battle against people who will slander you by saying that you hate children, and that you are the problem because we all need to solve this together, or some other BS.
Because he isn't really a geek. He pretends to be one. Since we are real geeks, we see through his disguise.
And I thought yesterday's article was bad.